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NASCAR Cup Series

Go Bowling at the Glen

Watkins Glen International

September 15th, 2024

Race #28 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 90
- Extended to 92 laps
Miles Raced : 223.4
Time of Race : 02 Hours 38 minutes 41 seconds
Average Speed: 85.226 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.979 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 21
Lead Changes: 11

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Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Chris Buescher	24	6	1	1	1	32	10.1	+23	85	83	+2	27	4	68.5%	19	92	117.7	40
Shane van Gisbergen	3	2	2	2	1	33	5.6	+1	53	61	-8	22	18	91.3%	1	92	123.9	0
Carson Hocevar	29	7	3	3	1	29	11.5	+26	76	68	+8	25	4	67.4%	1	92	103.6	34
Ross Chastain	1	1	5	4	1	31	4.8	-3	52	71	-19	19	15	91.3%	51	92	136.6	43
Zane Smith	19	24	14	5	2	30	14.1	+14	84	65	+19	23	2	54.4%	0	92	93.7	32
Chase Briscoe	12	4	6	6	2	34	10.4	+6	68	48	+20	21	0	73.9%	0	92	98.7	43
Michael McDowell	10	3	4	7	1	33	6.4	+3	59	75	-16	27	1	94.6%	7	92	113.9	30
Corey Lajoie	18	5	7	8	1	24	9.4	+10	54	63	-9	21	3	82.6%	2	92	106.2	29
Ryan Preece	21	23	8	9	7	36	21.3	+12	99	55	+44	14	5	34.8%	0	92	73.6	30
Austin Cindric	5	16	12	10	2	28	14.1	-5	61	66	-5	22	0	58.7%	0	92	84.8	33
Noah Gragson	9	9	11	11	3	29	13.7	-2	48	82	-34	17	0	68.5%	0	92	88.3	26
Kyle Larson	20	30	13	12	3	30	17.8	+8	93	65	+28	26	2	45.7%	0	92	76.2	28
Daniel Suarez	8	35	15	13	3	35	18.9	-5	71	61	+10	22	3	43.5%	0	92	77.3	31
Christopher Bell	17	15	21	14	9	33	20.6	+3	46	84	-38	10	1	40.2%	0	92	68.3	23
Joey Logano	7	11	16	15	1	30	10.6	-8	55	70	-15	16	0	68.5%	6	92	89.7	30
Todd Gilliland	37	26	19	16	11	37	24.7	+21	70	78	-8	6	0	10.9%	0	92	46.2	21
Bubba Wallace	32	33	30	17	9	35	26.6	+15	96	66	+30	11	0	13.0%	0	92	45.8	20
Alex Bowman	4	17	28	18	1	31	15.3	-14	68	46	+22	12	0	35.9%	1	92	71.7	31
Chase Elliott	14	14	22	19	5	30	14.9	-5	72	52	+20	17	1	59.8%	0	92	76.9	23
Martin Truex Jr	2	10	9	20	1	29	11.5	-18	54	64	-10	18	1	60.9%	4	92	86.8	27
John Hunter Nemechek	35	12	24	21	8	35	20.0	+14	72	85	-13	10	0	35.9%	0	92	61.7	16
Ty Gibbs	15	21	26	22	4	32	17.9	-7	72	74	-2	6	0	33.7%	0	92	64.8	22
Denny Hamlin	22	27	33	23	10	37	32.2	-1	44	29	+15	1	1	3.3%	0	92	36.6	15
Harrison Burton	33	28	32	24	6	35	23.5	+9	78	69	+9	12	0	16.3%	0	92	52.0	18
Josh Berry	31	13	10	25	4	31	15.9	+6	72	80	-8	17	0	58.7%	0	92	73.8	12
Brad Keselowski	28	29	18	26	2	32	22.3	+2	87	74	+13	13	0	21.7%	0	92	55.0	11
Tyler Reddick	16	31	27	27	7	33	23.6	-11	66	67	-1	15	0	27.2%	0	92	47.3	14
Austin Dillon	23	25	17	28	7	33	24.0	-5	78	98	-20	9	0	9.8%	0	92	41.8	9
Justin Haley	36	18	25	29	15	36	23.7	+7	82	72	+10	2	0	0.0%	0	92	51.5	8
Kyle Busch	13	32	20	30	10	37	29.8	-17	42	70	-28	12	0	9.8%	0	92	38.3	7
Daniel Hemric	27	20	29	31	10	32	23.8	-4	78	53	+25	2	0	6.5%	0	92	45.8	7
Juan Pablo Montoya	34	8	31	32	8	34	21.6	+2	78	97	-19	9	1	38.0%	0	91	52.9	5
Erik Jones	25	34	34	33	8	35	26.1	-8	62	50	+12	4	2	12.0%	0	90	52.1	6
William Byron	11	22	23	34	4	34	16.7	-23	64	56	+8	12	0	53.3%	0	90	67.0	9
Kaz Grala	38	19	35	35	12	38	28.4	+3	71	70	+1	3	0	4.4%	0	87	33.2	2
AJ Allmendinger	6	36	36	36	5	34	34.3	-30	1	31	-30	1	0	5.4%	0	6	28.7	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	26	37	37	37	26	35	36.9	-11	5	13	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	2	25.2	1
Ryan Blaney	30	38	38	38	30	30	38.0	-8	5	10	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	0	26.0	1

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Race Fast Facts

Watkins Glen International
Go Bowling at The Glen
Race Winner: Chris Buescher
Age: 31
Team : No. 17 - BuildSubmarines.com Ford
Owner: RFK Racing
Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Chris Buescher won the Go Bowling at The Glen, his sixth victory in 321 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and 13th top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in nine races at Watkins Glen International.
Shane Van Gisbergen (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Watkins Glen International. It is his first top-10 finish in 2024.
Carson Hocevar (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one races at Watkins Glen International.
Carson Hocevar (third) was the highest finishing rookie.
Christopher Bell leads the point standings by 3 points over Austin Cindric.

Race Recap

Buescher bests Van Gisbergen in exciting Watkins Glen Playoff race

September 15th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

In a largely chaotic race – action-packed literally from the drop of the green flag, it was Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Chris Buescher who prevailed in overtime in Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen – passing road course ace, Shane Van Gisbergen in a bumper-to-bumper last lap duel to claim his career first road course victory at the famed Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.

Van Gisbergen took the lead from the second row in a daring three-wide move on an overtime restart, but Buescher chased him down. Buescher’s No. 17 RFK Racing Ford and Van Gisbergen’s No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet made contact in the course’s famous bus stop then Buescher slid his Mustang inside Van Gisbergen’s Camaro in the esses and motored off to a .979-second win over the New Zealand superstar in the second Playoff race of the season.

Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar, Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain and Spire’s Zane Smith rounded out the top-five. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe finished sixth, followed by Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell, Spire’s Corey LaJoie, SHR’s Ryan Preece and Team Penske’s Austin Cindric.

Briscoe and Cindric were the only two Playoff drivers to finish among the top-10 in what was a perpetually dramatic day for the 16 Playoff drivers racing for the NASCAR Cup Series championship.

“Oh man, it was such a good Ford Mustang, speed was so great and long run speed phenomenal,” said the 31-year-old Texan Buescher, who just missed qualifying for the Playoffs when Chase Briscoe won the regular season finale at Darlington three weeks ago.

“I thought we lost it there on the last one but, man, to stay right there with him. It was a spot he was better than us, but he just missed it so I tried to cross over and just hard racing. What an awesome finish. To be that good for so much at the end of the race – all race – to get a win is good.

“We came here to be spoilers and we’re going to do that.”

Van Gisbergen, who won the Chicago Street Race last season in his first ever NASCAR Cup Series start, was a factor all day as expected for the former Australian Supercars champion, who will compete fulltime in the NASCAR Cup Series next year in the No. 88 Chevrolet for Trackhouse Racing.

“Driver error, yeah,” Van Gisbergen said of his slip in the bus stop. “I knew Chris was really going to send it and push me if he could get there and as I turned back I was a bit loose and clipped the inside wall. Just driver error and I’m gutted.

“The race was really awesome there with Ross [Chastain] and Chris [Buescher] and the others at the end, I’m gutted we couldn’t get it. We had a lot of fun, but I’m pretty angry at myself.”

It was a fitting dramatic ending to a day that shook up the Playoff standings from the opening lap to the final lap (92). Twelve of the 16 Playoff drivers suffered some sort of “challenge” on the day.

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney – who led the points standings entering the race – was eliminated from the race on Lap 1 after being innocently caught up in collision that included half a dozen cars, including fellow Playoff competitors Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Christopher Bell.

It was just the beginning of a long, challenging day for Hamlin who was involved in another accident mid-race. He was part of a three-wide line of Playoff drivers – also including Kyle Larson and Keselowski – trying to make it through the track’s famous series of turns called, the esses. Unfortunately for Hamlin there wasn’t enough room for the wide challenges and his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota again suffered damage.

Larson and fellow Playoff drivers, Regular Season Champion Tyler Reddick, Bell, Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott and William Byron were involved in multiple incidents throughout the day.

The high-speed, high-action day ended a streak of five consecutive Hendrick Motorsports wins at the historic 2.45-mile Watkins Glen track. Among the Playoff drivers, Larson finished 12th, followed by Trackhouse Racing’s Daniel Suarez, Bell and Logano rounding out the top-15.

Hendrick’s Alex Bowman was 18th, followed – in order – by teammate Elliott and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr.

JGR’s Ty Gibbs was 22nd, followed immediately by his teammate Hamlin and Wood Brothers’ Harrison Burton. Keselowski was 26th and Reddick 27th. Byron ended up 34th and Blaney was 38th, the first car out.

Those results mean that with one race left in this opening three-race Playoff round, Bell holds a three-point edge on Cindric atop the standings with Bowman five points back. Logano’s win at Atlanta two weeks ago scored him an automatic bid into the next round.

Heading into next Saturday night’s first round elimination race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, Hamlin is now ranked 13th, six points below his JGR teammate Gibbs on the cutoff line. Keselowski is 12 points back, Truex is now 14 points back and Burton is 20 points off the transfer position.

“I thought our Camry was solid, needed to be better on long runs for sure, but worked hard and persevered and had a decent day but as always you get the cautions at the end and guys just run through you,” said a frustrated but determined Truex, who ran up front early and was – at one point – more than a dozen points above the cutoff line.

“It’s just crazy all these races always come down to this and I don’t really understand how guys can call themselves the best in the world when they just drive through everyone on restarts at the end of these races,” Truex added. “It’s very frustrating, but it is what it is these days.”

The NASCAR Cup Series will conclude a triple-header race weekend at the famed Bristol high-banks with Saturday night’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race. Denny Hamlin is the defending winner.